number of federal agencies and local agencies, fire department, and ambulances outside, in fact, sitting oh, maybe 20 yards from one right now. i'm watching a bomb technician walk out with a flak jacket and helmet on and the hook and ladder truck has gone back down. looks like they're trying to get somebody inside to get a look at this more than just through the window and may try to enter the facility. and that's been the goal all along because the idea, if this was to go perfectly they'd set off the little devices and set off two so far i've heard, devices of their own little pop caps or whatever they're using to try and diffuse whatever is in the apartment. the perfect scenario for the authorities would be to do that to defuse the first couple of and get inside with the robots and defuse the rest of the apartment and be able to secure the rest the apartments so people could return home and resume their

lives, but more importantly for authorities, to secure the evidence inside holmes' apartment and you can bet there's going be to be a plethora of evidence inside of that apartment here in aurora, colorado. it looks like jonathan, from your-- from our vantage point they're going to try to have a couple of bomb technicians walking in through the parking lot entrance and the most we've seen since this operation began about an hour ago, jon? >> all right, incredible work there, adam. thank you very much. let's talk about the delicate task that lies ahead. former new york police captain, peter moreno is now director of operations for broadening risk consultants and he knows a thing or two about disarming bombs scenes like this one. and captain, they have been treating this so gingerly and obviously, we can understand why. tell us a little about those explosive charges that we just heard. what were they likely doing inside of that apartment? >> what you're watching is a

precise surgical operation designed to minimize the damage to the crime scene and to increase the safety of the officers on the scene. the small detonation devices are designed to focus energy towards another device and try to minimize the damage. it's important to remember, that a lot has been said about the crime scene. police understand that the immediate safety is obviously paramount concern, but also, the ongoing investigation includes securing whatever evidence might be in that apartment to protect people in the future from he whatever devices may be stored at other locations perhaps or evidence how he acquired this explosive device. >> yeah, this kind of situation, i mean, trip wires and bottles filled with liquid, where does one get that kind of information? is that all out there on the internet for would-be bombers? >> well unfortunately it is.

i'm sure you're familiar with anarchists cookbook and information available via clan destine websites, there may be chemicals inside the department, if exploded could be a greater risk to the community. this is a precise surgical operation has to be undergone with the utmost of care. >> adam housley is telling us that it appears that the bomb technicians are about to actually go into the unit. apparently, they feel confident that whatever they have done with those first trip wires, however the system was designed to be set off, the apparently they feel they ha have, well, disarmed the first ones and they can at least maybe take a step inside the front door. would you guess that's what the plan is? >> i'm sure that they would prefer to get inside and remove whatever devices they may find to remote locations, usually in a small armored vehicle and prefer to detonate

them under controlled circumstances at a remote location and i imagine that's what they're going to try and do right now. >> and these kinds of devices described as bottles filled with liquid, are they the kind of, you know, high explosives that you see dynamite being, you know, a good example or are they just designed to be fire balls? >> it's impossible for me to tell or anyone to tell until they get inside. the speculation, you have to err on the side of caution and assume they're highly volatile before any examination can take place. >> and i guess, one of the things that has be to be going through any bomb technician's mind is, you know, is this something i haven't seen before? is there a, you know, a back door that would trigger this device? is there something i might touch that sets this thing off? >> absolutely, and the front door-- obviously, mr. holmes is a very intelligent individual and he knew that police were

likely to thwart some of his attendants here, quite certain that he had several backup plans and methods to achieve his results. >> so, authorities have waited this long, some 36 hours after they have found these things to start disarming them. obviously, the time has been well spent in treating these bombs or whatever they are with an abundance of caution. >> that's the preferred method. buy as much time as you can, once the neighborhood has been secured and everyone is evaluated. now you have the luxury of time. >> what will they do with this stuff, you know, once they get in there? are they going to bring it all out and you know, put it in evidence room or preferred method to put it in a pit and blow it up? >> well, first of all, any dangerous substances will be removed. in new york city we would remove it to the range where the bomb squad has a pit, as

you say, to explode them, but everything has to be cataloged and recorded, if safety permi permits. >> all right. peter moreno is a former new york city captain and explosives expert with the new york city. >> thank you. >> you're quite welcome. >> one of biggest concerns for investigators in colorado to find a safe way to get inside the booby trapped apartment. we're told that bomb detectives have successfully disarmed the trip wires and they're go to get into that apartment, but their investigation is not over. mike tobin is live with the very latest, mike? >> and jon, a lot of what the police are going to be able to look at is the purchasing, the physical planning that this guy went through at least two months ahead of the attack. and he got on the internet, in a massive arsenal. 3000, 223 bullets that he was

carrying, another caliber bullet that would correspond with the the two glock side arms that they had. one was on his possession at the time and one the police chief believes he said was inside the vehicle out in the parking lot and also purchased on the internet. some300 .12 gain shotguns. all were bought legally and locally and all the background checks would have turned up as a simple speeding ticket, nothing to cause a red flag and police are also going to want to look into investigation of the purchases of the body armor. he had more body armor than soldiers wear into combat, a tactical helmet, a throat protector, a chest protecting vest and groin detector and protects the femoral arteries, it doesn't seem significant, but someone can bleed out in the femoral arteries. and he was geared up for a gun

battle. what makes it strange, after he was approached by police minute of the attack, he gave up without a fight. and people looking into the background, said he was quiet, doesn't necessarily get along with people, but nothing to indicate that he would execute a horrific attack. he did spend a lot of time on the internet and engaged in fantasy type video games and role playing video games. you get back to the point there's nothing at that people have said so far that would indicate he was capable of this kind of carnage, jon. >> yeah, there have been situations in the past where people say, oh, you should have caught this out of his background, you should have seen this, you know, statement, these, you know, suspicious activities, but so far with this particular suspect, nothing in a background check that would have revealed anything like this might have been in his future. >> and then, i think things can really change. you're talking about the entry into this apartment right now. ground zero in terms of

evidence will probably be in there. we've heard talk about a computer, we haven't seen any evidence that there's a computer, but you have to assume that someone who is a medical student studying neuro science probably spent a lot of time on the computer and heard from his background, playing fantasy games on his computer and assume that there probably is a computer in the apartment and can yield a lot of evidence and you're going to have purchasing receipts probably in that apartment and that's just one of the reasons that police are going into the place where he lives, they're being extra careful and they don't want destruction of property and certainly don't want to hurt people, but preserve as much evidence as they can in this process, jon. >> and mike, as you pointed out, somebody who is a neurobiology student is accustomed of spending long hours at the computer looking into the most minute details and there could be an awful lot of information that that thing. certainly can be, jon. >> yeah. well, we understand, too, that there are now bomb squad

members who are actually inside that apartment. apparently, it's not clear to me whether they went in through that broken window that we've been watching for so long there, or whether they actually went in through that front door. but there are bomb squad members now physically inside the apartment that was apparently so wired with potential explosives, trip wires, and the like. and designed, police say, to kill whoever the first one was through the door. well, before he allegedly shot some 71 people killing 12 of them inside the theater behind me, and classmates say that james holmes was quote, a the sweet and easy going guy. did the former grad student turn into a cold blooded killer? and how did that happen? we'll talk with a clinical psychiatrist next, and plus, hair owing moments from inside the theater. we will hear from several eyewitnesses, describing the terror and fear that erupted just moments after the gunman

launched his deadly assault on an innocent crowd. >> my buddy, chris, he was about five or six rows up from me and a bullet right to the chest. he heard it hit and sunk and blood all over his face, spattered and his sister was with him and they hit the deck and crawled off after he stopped shooting, but i was out before it started, so, i got lucky for sure. building pass, corporate card, verizon 4g lte phone. the global ready one ? yeah, but you won't need... ♪ hajimemashite. hajimemashite. hajimemashite. you guys like football ? thank you so much. i'm stoked. you stoked ? totally. ... and he says, "under the mattress." souse le matelas. ( laughter ) why's the new guy sending me emails from paris ? paris, france ? verizon's 4g lte devices are global-ready. plus, global data for just $25. only from verizon.

>> hello, everybody, i'm uma in new york, more from colorado, but first a look at other stories we're following. activists say that government troops and rebels are forcing many residents in the country to flee to safer areas and in israeli burying the five victims of the bus explosion. and police are intensifying the search for two girls, 8 and 10-year-old cousins disappeared during a bike ride last week. now, back to colorado and more

with jon scott. >> reaction is about the tragedy that unfolded and the crowd in aurora, colorado. >> jon: it works better when you use the microphone. the reaction is coming in about the terrible tragedy at the movie theater behind me. so many are so appalled at the senseless loss of lives in unprovoked violence. peter doocy is in washington with a look at what the nation's political leaders are saying, peter? >> reporter: since obama cut his campaign trip to florida short, he canceled a rally in orlando, and when he spoke at fort myers to speak with sadless about the shooting spree at the cinema behind you in colorado, which is the sentiment that carried over into his weekly address this morning. listen. >> if there's anything to take away from that tragedy, it's a reminder that life is fragile. our time here is limited and

it is precious. and what matters in the end are not the small and trivial things which so often consume our lives, it's how we choose to treat one another and love one another. >> reporter: for the first time in a long time yesterday, both the president and mitt romney put politics completely aside with romney in new hampshire, removing all campaign signs and music ahead of his remarks, which focused not on the economy, but only on the tragic loss of life in aurora and today the spoker of the house john boehner said something you don't hear him say a lot of. he agreed with president obama. >> we join president obama in sending condolences and prayers to those killed and wounded and thank god for the police and first responders, doctors, nurses, and who stepped in and saved lives. >> reporter: and as the people of colorado try to pick up the pieces they don't have to watch attack ads at least not as many, both the obama

campaign and romney campaign reached out to affiliate tv stations in colorado and asked them to pull the spots for the time being, but in fact it takes a while and not clear how fast every single station was able to pull the ads. jon? >> peter doocy live from washington. peter, thank you. well, authorities continue to comb through the suspect's apartment. the third floor apartment where james holmes lived, about four miles from this movie theater. there you see a member of the sheriff's bomb squad armed with what appears to be a rifle, then, again, it might be simply one of those breaking batons that they use to smash in windows and et cetera. and they-- we understand do have live officers inside the apartment who are now taking a look at the booby trap scene apparently filled with explosives, bottles that potentially could catch fire, trip wires, shotgun shells and

the like. authorities say it is a very serious situation that the team is dealing with there. you can see them trying to yank out the window frame finally succeeding there. authorities apparently are going in through the window. we were told that they actually have officers who did get inside the apartment, but whether that meant through the front door or through the window, we don't yet know. they did apparently succeed in-- all right, yeah, he's extending the boom now on that device and maybe it has a camera on the end. maybe they are, you know, getting a deeper look inside the apartment because that thing apparently has quite a reach on it that you can see, but that bomb squad member taking another look inside the apartment of the suspect, james holmes. the 24-year-old man thought to have caused so much carnage at the century 16 movie theater here in aurora, colorado, again, they're looking at his

third floor apartment about four miles away from the theater. adam housley has a new vantage point on what officers are doing. adam, what can you tell us? >> yeah, jon, i'm going to step away and we moved our vantage point to the west. you can see there's a hook and ladder truck. i'm talking with jessica rosenthal, fox news radio, next to me, said that the aurora police department tweeted for media and people in the area get behind their cars and far enough away and we're at vantage point where the sergeant says we're okay location to be for what is going be to be a controlled detonation. we've heard two so far. the last one i heard was about 35 minutes ago, they were very small. i can tell you now there are four different personnel inside the building. we saw the first two guys go in about, oh, ten minutes ago and then they repositioned the hook and ladder truck in order to get a better vantage point themselves and they brought in two more. it looks like another firefighter and another bomb technician, of course we don't

know for sure because they're not wearing any markings, just protective equipment as they went in. we now know there are four personnel eitr outside of the apartment or inside the apartment and moving around delicately to try to diffuse the situation. and we know the first device were successful inside the apartment, set up to quote, kill whoever opened the door. so that first one has been elimb nated. there are many more, they just tweeted for everyone in the area to take cover or make sure you're far enough away and the first location, the target says we're extremely safe and we are by them as well. as you see, a number of people inside, they have definitely found at least an entry point, but seems like, jon, they're beginning to use their own little explosive devices to try to defuse the situation inside that leads me to believe, when we talk to the people that specialize in this i think thing this is

literally a spider web of stuff and we've been told that from the beginning, when at the looked in the window, trip wires and wires connecting bottles and balloons with powder and gun shells and schrapnel, things that could be used as schrapnel if there were an explosion. and an atc agent has walked to the back of the hook and ladder truck. we know atf is here and closely involved as well as fbi and a number of federal and local agencies. jon, i think the headline this hour we're expecting another explosion of some sort. the first two were small, no smoke so far, no flames so far, no fire so far. those are positive signs. they're trying to preserve the building and surrounding apartments, and what may be inside the apartment of james holmes. jon. >> jon: adam, housley, thank you. as they continue to comb

through that apartment, that third floor apartment where james homes lived, we are joined once again by the people who lived immediately below him. kaitlin and chris rodriguez, they were the downstairs neighbors, we talked to earlier in the hour, last hour, i should say, who heard all of a sudden techno music blaring precisely at midnight. apparently something that was set on a timer. kaitlin, you're the one who went upstairs, grabbed the knob and thought about opening the door. there's been speculation about this, but i wanted to read to you something that the aurora police spokeswoman just said. cassidy carlson, an aurora police sergeant said, this is some serious stuff that our team is dealing with. the booby trap was set to kill the person opening the door. your thoughts? >> well, i haven't heard those exact words yet, so that takes me back a little bit. that's, that's scary, i mean, what else can you say about that.

>> jon: thanking your lucky stars you didn't open that door open an inch or two like you were thinking of doing. >> thanking my lucky stars and god at the same time. >> jon: i can't imagine, you said there was something telling you not to open that door as much as you might have wanted to. >> yeah, as chris warned me not to go up there the first place because of how odd it was, just the situation in general and i think what am i going to find behind this door, do i want to be the witness to that? and it stopped me and i said i'll let the police handle this. >> jon: chris, you didn't want her going up there. >> no, a gut feeling. the first instinct, i heard the music and kept playing, my first instinct. better call the nonemergency number and get the police out here so they could do a little investigation. but, i know how kaitlin is and she decided no, i'm going to go up there and knock on the door and you know, let them, let them quiet down because this isn't right for us, it's loud, midnight and want them to turn the music off. so, i'm glad she didn't open

that door and again, i'm glad that the scenario happened the way it did at that apartment complex because if the police did show up and did knock on the door and they did open the door, who knows what happens. so-- >> and how did you find out, kaitlin, what had happened at the movie theater? >> we found out what happened in the movie theater after we were evacuated and on our way to where we were going to be staying, just by looking on our phones, at news posts and that's when we kind of put two and two together because we'd seen the bomb truck and the robots before we were evacuated completely. >> jon: i know and forgive me for interrupting for a second. my producers in new york were speaking to me with something they wanted to go to and i didn't catch it, maybe they could repeat that, but in the meantime, after the music shut off how long was it blaring and what happened? you just went to bed and awakened by the squad officer? >> well, what happened the music started at exactly midnight and for some reason, you know, that stuck in my

mind this is weird the music starts at midnight and kept playing until exactly at one in the the morning. so right at 1 a.m. it turned off and after it turned off, we decided you know, okay, whatever's going on upstairs, a party, it's over, let's go to bed. and then about an hour later, kaitlin hears the door in the back being broken down and hears a loud bang and then we hear a knock at the door and she looks out and there's s.w.a.t. officers telling us to evacuate and get out and we weren't able to take anything, it just happened so quick, we had about two minutes to get out whatever we could and get owed of the building. >> again, you're continuing to see officers. you can see these pictures, that's what's going on, one floor above the place where you used to live. you can see the officers there reaching inside and what used to-- well, i guess it's still general motors holmes' apartment and they're slowly tearing out the vertical blinds and things like that, getting rid of the screen and

the window flames, making entry and trying to disarm that apparently potentially deadly mess that he left, that you almost walked into. >> yes, and you know, seeing the pictures is a little surreal and seeing my plants in the windows and just everything and you know, we're not that worried about our stuff. we try not to worry about, we want to worry about people being safe, but it's still, it's just a little bit of a toll on you. >> jon: well, you're safe apparently because you listened to that inner voice that said don't push the door open. >> yes, i'm so thankful for that. >> jon: we all are, and we don't need more victims in this tragedy. >> no, we do not. >> jon: kaitlin fonzy and chris rodriguez, thank you both. we're going to continue to watch the situation four miles from where we're standing right now where bomb technicians are very gingerly opening the apartment james holmes, they spent 36 hours trying to defuse some of the

array of incendiary devices and potential bombs that he left behind apparently bombs that kaitlin escaped. back in a moment. [ birds chirping ]

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>> authorities outside the apartment of the the suspect in the massive shooting in colorado say they've disarmed the first device, the device designed to kill whoever came through the front door, but there are other devices yet to be disarmed and they're working on that now. keep in mind it has hit 100 degrees in aurora, colorado. it's a bright blue sky, a beautiful sunshiny day, but it is warm and those officers in their heavy bomb gear, black outfits and so forth are soaking up an awful lot of heat and they're going to have to work quickly and in shifts if they want to avoid, frankly, just passing out from heat exhaustion. that's going to be one of the dangers they face. adam housley is outside at that apartment.

he has been keeping tabs on the the very delicate operation for us all morning. adam, what can you bring us? >> yeah, john, you mentioned the water and keeping people hydrated exactly what i've seen the firefighters and police officers do with each other, and they pass the water bottles around and it's extremely warm here right now. you're right with that situation and we've just been told by the sergeant, a block, maybe a half block, a block away from the to south of the apartment complex or new vantage point. a ladder truck has gone inside and there are at least four individuals inside. we've been told in the next five minutes, maybe ten, right now the plan is five minutes we are going to hear three air horn bursts and once those bursts are completed they're then going to set off another device and sounds like it's going to be a significantly larger device than the two we heard so far. so far, to give you an idea what it sounded like, if you were out here it's as if you were hearing, when you watched the fireworks and way in the distance you hear a distant

boom. that's what we heard, two low distant booms earlier today and those are the two that have been set off so far, we're told they're very successful and definitely eliminates a trip wire in the initial explosive device that was set to kill whoever opened the front door and now we're told we'll hear three air horn bursts and then set off a larger device. they didn't warn us before. there wasn't an air horn burst and talk to us and tell us what's going to happen because they were obviously using a much smaller device, nothing that would potentially cause any issues. we're told we're in a safe location and show the firefighter taking cover behind the fire truck near, 250 yards from us, and that's what a lot of the emergency personnel have done, gone inside the cars or behind some of their vehicles as we await the three horns and that's the warning signs. everybody in the area, now we did get a tweet from the aurora police department telling they're confident of their evacuation zone, but

they're being overprotective to tell people in the media and allowed where we're allowed to potentially get behind a car if you want to make yourself feel more comfortable, but they're still very confident in our location right now. so, we're confident with the location because they're confident with our location and not going to put ourselves in jeopardy, but at the same time want to show you the best vantage point possible right now you're looking at the complex where this is going town and seeing the hook and ladder truck that took four individuals inside and we'll await the air horn bursts to warn us the next thing we'll hear is an explosion. jon. >> jon: adam housley outside the suspect's apartment. thank you very much. it's one of the stranger criminal cases, stranger criminal scenes we've ever seen. authorities are looking at it now. they're also still looking for a motive in this deadly shooting rampage, the rampage that could have been worse if those bombs had gone off. james holmes accused of killing 12 people and wounding 58 others in the movie massacre. he was described as looking like an asass sin going ready,

ready to go to war. and certainly had the fire power, carrying several guns and packing as many as 6,000 rounds of ammunition, at least he had ordered those over the internet. one police chief talked about it. >> he was dressed all in black, for those of you who don't have this, entirely in black wearing a gas mask, a ballistics helmet, a tactical ballistic vest, tactffact tacti means places to put gear and clips and in addition, it was bullet-proof or bullet resistent. he was wearing ballistic leggings in case he took a round in the legs, throat protection and groin protection and black tactical gloves. that's what he looked like in the theater. . >> so what can we understand about his possible mindset joining us now dr. michael stone, professor of clinical

psychiatry at columbia university. he has made a specialty of studying mass murderers and serial killers. and dr. stone, your first take on the suspect in this case? >> well, the man seems like a typical in some ways of mass murderers, in the sense that he seems paranoid, he has a grudge, he has hatred for certain groups of people. but he also seems again typical like a social misfit and loner, a, what we call in my trade schizoid or personality. what is special about him. the desire to imitate a cartoon figure, particularly the villain, and i didn't read somewhere in the newspapers that he, when he was growing up, sided with the villain. >> jon: excuse me, dr. stone, i don't mean to interrupt you, we want to take you back to adam housley outside the

apartment complex where there's been another explosion. >> reporter: yeah, jon, this was much louder than before, a bang that went off 15 moments ago, and saw personnel running around the parking lot. we told we would hear three air horn bursts first and then an explosion, so we hope that that was not an explosion that happened because something that was tripped. we hope that was a planned explosion, but it was significantly louder explosion than we've heard so far and we've seen the ambulance pull back and back along an alleyway here and the technicians took cover and a number of people went around the corner to take cover. all of a sudden, a loud bang, but again, authorities told us we would hear three horn bursts first to warn everybody to take cover and then it would happen. those did not come. we hope that does not mean there was an accident inside the apartment, but definitely a loud explosion that went down maybe 30, 40 seconds ago and we don't see any emergency personnel running inside as if

there was be somebody injured so that could be a good, very good sign, but we definitely heard an explosion. this one was significant, jon. >> jon: and from the vantage point that we are able to see and i think you're not, adam. you could actually see material flying around inside the apartment, it's not clear what that was, whether it was drywall or whether it was some of the stuff that the suspect apparently left behind. we don't know, but you could definitely see with the explosion that there was material flying around inside the apartment. you say it was louder. what were authorities-- much louder. >> jon: planning to do or hoping to do with this one? >> well, we suspect it was going to be a louder explosion just because the two previous ones that we heard that started the process this morning, that helped defuse the first threat, which is the one the front door set to kill anybody who touched it or opened it.

when those two explosions went off, they were soft like hearing fireworks in the distance. this was a loud bang and caught us off guard because we expected to hear the air horns and authorities came over to us and sent a tweet out and said you're going to have three air horn bursts and then the explosion, so he they knew it was going to be something louder, jon. >> jon: all right. adam, because it came without warning, it surprised all of us in terms of the timing, but we did record what that moment sounded like a couple of minutes ago. we want to play that for viewers right now. >> all right. but i can tell you. there it goes, that was the explosion. you could hear it, it sounded like a loud boom just seconds before that we heard them yelling fire in the hole and police closed down a section of peoria street one block north and south of 17th. this is the intersection that we're at. >> jon: you could see, you

could see what looked like, i don't know, part of the window frame or maybe some of the vertical blinds or something actually tumble out of the window as the blast force from whatever it was that authorities set off there, as it pushed a shock wave out through the open window, the broken out glass there that authorities had broken as they tried to make this apartment safe. once again, that apartment designed-- well, the bombs left behind, the incendiary devices designed to kill the first person through the door. we are hoping to continue our interview with dr. michael stone in just a moment on the mindset that would lead somebody to go to so much trouble to try to kill. we'll be back with more on that in just a moment. we're live in aurora, colorado. [ male announcer ] this is anna, her long day teaching the perfect swing

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ichltd. >> jamie: >> those are the explosions we heard moments ago emanating from the apartment of james holmes, from the movie of complex that i'm reporting from now. they said it was successful, hoping to use it disarm other devices left behind in the apartment and devices that they say were designed to kill. so, as bad as the situation is already, it could have been much worse if that apartment had gone up, apparently in an explosion, the way it was intended, there could be other bodies to talk about. and adam housley is joining us now, with an update on specifically what they've accomplished inside that apartment, adam. >> yeah, we heard from the sergeant from the aurora police department, she said the controlled detonations the first one, that one definitely much larger than the first two

was successful. no word inside the apartment. dealing with other devices and possibility of more controlled detonations and they'll keep us updated. what they do, a major street, that's about a block behind this complex, that they basically shut down when they have a controlled detonation and once that's done they allow the cars to come through again. they're not threatened in that location, but it makes more sense for that traffic flow and they reopened that street and they're successful on all so far, two small ones, one larger one and viewers are having what's the stuff flying around inside the apartment, some stuff that authorities were talking about, apparently all over this apartment there were pieces of paper, there were all kinds of balloons, there were balloons with white powder inside. bottles with liquid, and there's significant amount of just stuff inside this apartment and the idea is to defuse the situation and try to secure as much of that as possible for evidence so it's a delicate organization as you

mentioned, jon and continues to go on. and we will tcontinue to keep you updated. >> jon: so far so good in the attempt to defuse the situation. and the suspect left a myriad of devices that authorities found baffling, but so far put some of the best bomb minds on it. the task force of explosives experts from around the country have so far been able to defuse the devices to their satisfaction, nobody else has been hurt or killed in that apartment as apparently the plotter intended it to do. we will take a short break and continue with our coverage live from aurora, colorado in just a moment. when you have diabetes... your doctor will say get smart about your weight. that's why there's glucerna hunger smart shakes. they have carb steady, with carbs that digest slowly to help minimize blood sugar spikes. [ male announcer ] glucerna hunger smart.

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>> among the stories of overwhelming heart break are some miraculous, well, miracles, survival tales, including a former navy member who was in the theater with his best friend when the gunman opened fire. he's calling us now from his hospital bed. joshua nolan, you escaped your time in the navy and you're now a civilian and something

like this happens, you wind up with a bullet in the leg. how did you -- what did you see happen? how did you know, first of all, you were hit. >> well, it was-- everything was pretty darn quick, not hard to-- with everything that was happening. once the gunshots started going right off, and going through my mind was protecting my loved ones and my friends and that's what, you know, we just all huddled together behind the theater seats and held each other down and just tried to stay down and tried to, you know, get this past this quick as possible and hopefully done and over with. and that's about when i got-- i don't know how long it took, probably, 15, 20 minutes and that's when i first got my first gunshot into the leg and then shot in the arm. >> jon: how do you feel about your prospects for recovery? what do the doctors tell you. >> the doctors here have been fantastic and high hopes that my nerve endings are not hurt as bad as presuming it to be. so i should have a full

recovery and my stay is a longer than expected, but a lot better to-- than anything else that could happen right now. >> jon: joshua nowlan, we're sorry that you're one of the 50 people injured, but 58 people injured, i guess is the number, but glad that you're alive to tell the story. >> thank you. >> jon: joshua, thank you. >> thank you very much. >> jon: our coverage continues throughout the day here from colorado, i'm jon scott, i'll be back later on this evening for the fox report for mike tobin, and all of our team here in colorado, adam housley, thanks very much for joining us. [ male announcer ] don't miss red lobster's four course seafood feast, st $14.99. start with soup, salad ancheddar bay biscuits then choose one of 7 entrees

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>> trip wires, jars of accelerants and ammunition, they're all part of an elaborate booby trap at the apartment of 24-year-old man accused of going on that deadly shooting spree at a movie theater in colorado. right now, police are working desperately to get into that apartment. hello, i'm marcel neville live in new york. >> i'm glad you're with us, i'm rick fulbaum. and they say the first trip wire and explosives attached to it have been disarmed. nor danger inside. the bomb squad are trying to find a way in, one that will protect lives and pre sear serv

leave as well. >> we have live teams, adam housley and mike tobin are live with the latest from aurora, and molly henneberg is standing by live in washington. first we'll go to adam housley just a block or so away from james holmes' apartment and you've been hearing the explosions there, tell us more. >> that's right, we're block or so from the apartment complex, step away and give you the vantage point. the hook and ladder truck is have taken individuals to the third story apartment where james holmes has booby trapped the place. the aurora police department say they've been successful so far on a number of things. they've had three explosions, the first two hours ago, sounded like you were far away from a fireworks display. the one we heard 20 minutes agas